The Devil's Decadence: An Alexis Sturmgarten Mystery

Alexis Sturmgarten knows exactly what the Devil looks like in San Francisco. He usually has stock options.Once the city's best private investigator, Alex now spends her days selling books and crystals, reading tarot, and keeping other people's problems at arm's length. Then an old lawyer friend comes begging for her help with a client accused of murdering an up-and-coming tech CTO. He knows she's not exactly innocent-but he's certain she's not guilty, either.Alex can't resist a puzzle, and the cops' solution to the case feels like a toddler's floor jigsaw. Digging into a high-tech A.I. startup, she finds a polished media veneer hiding drugs, excess, and betrayal. San Francisco was built on gold rush greed and dot-com delusion. Now it runs on valuation and vice.Someone in this city knows how to leverage both.In the suit of Pentacles, everything has a price, and the fifteenth card of the Major Arcana screams of avarice and obsession. Against a backdrop of the Devil's dark influence, and with the real killer stalking her shadow, Alex is about to learn just how much someone is willing to pay to keep their secrets buried.Draw your first card with The Devil's Decadence, the opening case in The Sturmgarten Arcana, a modern noir short mystery series where murder, tarot, and San Francisco vice are always in the cards.